A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?
If these weird episodes are the result of an orbiting white dwarf, a type of stellar remnant left behind when a star with around ... be detected using ripples in space and time called ...
This system is also the only X-ray light-emitting binary that features a white dwarf stripping stellar material from a highly evolved, helium-burning, hot subdwarf star. Breaking space news ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has been used to determine the mass of white dwarf star LAWD 37. It is "56 percent the mass of our Sun," according to NASA/ESA. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. McGill (Univ. of ...
Hubble Space Telescope Captures a Fascinating Cosmic Occurrence 'Blue Lurker' Star System 2,800 Light-Years From Earth In a ...
White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the hydrogen they once used as nuclear fuel. Fusion in a star's core produces heat and outward pressure, but this pressure is kept in balance by ...